Kim is a distinguished human rights lawyer and scholar specializing in gender-based violence and crimes against children in armed conflict and forced displacement. She currently serves as Professor of Practice at the Bursky School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also directs the Center for Human Rights, Gender and Migration and holds a visiting professorship at the law school.
From 2010 to 2019, she taught at UC Berkeley School of Law and led its award-winning Sexual Violence Program at the Human Rights Center, advancing research, teaching, and advocacy on conflict-related sexual violence and refugee protection. She has provided expert technical support to judges, prosecutors, and victims’ counsel in national and international trials, and served as the International Criminal Court Prosecutor’s Special Adviser on Sexual Violence in Conflict from 2021 to 2023 and his Senior Coordinator for Gender-based Crimes and Crimes Against Children from 2023-2025.
Kim began her legal career in New York City, representing low-income immigrants in post-9/11 deportation defense and gender-asylum cases. She is widely recognized for her pioneering work on women’s and children’s rights, with strong institutional ties to international tribunals, UN agencies, and survivor networks around the world.
Beyond her impressive credentials, Kim is known as a highly collaborative teammate who excels at building interdisciplinary connections and launching new projects. She is described as fun, good-humored, adventurous, interpersonally gifted, and deeply committed to mentorship and teamwork in the human rights field.
